Back to the cinema…
I believe, that I speak on behalf of everyone, if I say, that we are all happy to see you in the cinema again…
In addition to this feeling of course, it hurts us, that after we went through a “war”, another “took the turn” to take life and spread fear for the next…
But the world has learned to resist in different ways…
The cinema is one of them…
As cultural artifacts created by specific cultures, which facilitate intercultural dialogue, films are first and foremost evidence of resistance…
Film festivals as well…
Thanks to global digitalization, film festivals are contributing more and more, more and more strongly at the frontline of an increasingly polarized world, offering mediation for understanding and promotion….
Whatever happens in the farthest place of the world, it occupies the festival screens within the next year. The information you get is much more complex than in TV news and there is a chance to speak to characters or witnesses of the stories directly. Obviously, this contradicts the glamorous festivals of red carpets and dress codes.
But the film festivals are first and foremost platforms for the filmmakers…
…platforms to introduce their work and discuss topics shown in the film as well as the filmmaking process, opportunities to get together to see and share each other’s work, to confront and develop skills, to collaborate…
…, platforms for discovery and encouragement…, opportunities for young or unknown filmmakers to show their films in front of a real and live audience and to be reviewed by professional critics…, opportunities to be revealed to the world and the world ‘ discover them…
Yes, festivals are also ritual platforms and audience platforms…, opportunities and cinema for all…, access to films that they might not otherwise have the opportunity to see …
A little of all this, is also this festival…, and this edition as well… Quality, which he certainly includes in our own way…
Of course, the festival we do is the festival of our choice, the festival where we would like to participate…, a festival oriented by the content, program and interest in filmmaking…
Thank God, we are in the cinema again…
And we have many films before us…
Films, films and films…, films and endless conversations about cinema…. In and out of the cinema, with energy and passion… about its past and its future…. Here and elsewhere…
Exactly these, I wish to work in the following days…
I wish you all a good festival…!
